Towards DARIAH in Belgium, a presentation at the Digital Humanities (DH) Spring Event at KU Leuven on 28-29 April 2015: https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/digitalhumanities/DH-spring
3. Sally Chambers
DARIAH-EU Coordination Office
What is DARIAH?
DARIAH Mission:
DARIAH aims to enhance and support
digitally-enabled research and teaching
across the humanities and artsโฆ
4. A quick history of DARIAH
In-kind
Cash
โข 2006: DARIAH included in the ESFRI
Roadmap
โข 2008 โ 2011: Preparatory Phase
project, Preparing DARIAH
โข 2011 โ 2013: โTransition Phaseโ,
establishing the DARIAH-ERIC,
integrating national activities
โข 2014+: DARIAH-ERIC
5. 15 Founding Members
In-kind
Cash
Founding Members
Austria
Belgium
Croatia
Cyprus
Denmark
France
Germany
Greece
Founding Members
Ireland
Italy
Luxembourg
Malta
Netherlands
Serbia
Slovenia
Candidate countries
Lithuania
Poland
Portugal
Spain
Switzerland
7. Who is DARIAH for?
Image source: http://www.utsa.edu/today/images/graphics/diversity2.jpg
A wide variety of research communities across the
arts and humanities
8. For researchers, by researchersโฆ
Digital Literary
Studies
Digital Medieval Studies
9. Network of research communities
Holocaust Researchers
Medieval and
Modern Historians
Archaeologists Digital Textual
Scholarship
Digital Methods
11. Sally Chambers
DARIAH-EU Coordination Office
What is DARIAH?
DARIAH in everyday life
โฆDARIAH would like to offer a portfolio
of services that directly benefit
researchers in their everyday workโฆ
17. Digital Archaeology
www.dainst.org/
Viewing platform of the Domus Severiana on the Palatine in
Rome as in its construction phase in Flavian time (about 80
CE). Visualisation of the visual axis of the Domus Severiana
over the city of Rome โ German Archaeological Institute
20. Multimedia Research
โฆ a digital infrastructure to facilitate researchersโ access to the
Danish radiophonic cultural heritage including appropriate tools
and a bibliography
LARM Audio Research Archive
http://larm.blogs.ku.dk/about-larm/
21. Network of research communities
Holocaust Researchers
Medieval and
Modern Historians
Archaeologists Digital Textual
Scholarship
Digital Methods
Next step:
Involving research
communities in Belgium
24. DARIAH in Belgium
โข Belgium has one seat in the General Assembly
(BELSPO)
โข 3 Consortia (alternating National Coordinator per year)
-DARIAHโVlaanderen (DARIAH-VL)
-DARIAHโFรฉdรฉration Wallonie-Bruxelles (DARIAH-FWB)
-DARIAHโ Federal (Dariah-FED)
โข Actual National Coordination (2014-2015): Ghent
University (Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities)
31. Network of research communities
Holocaust Researchers
Medieval and
Modern Historians
Archaeologists Digital Textual
Scholarship
Digital Methods
Next step:
Involving research
communities in Belgium
33. DARIAH in Belgium
DARIAH-FWB
โข UCL : Paul Bertrand (spokesperson)
โข ULiรจge : Bjรถrn-Olav Dozo
โข USaint-Louis : Eric Bousmar
โข UMons : Bruno De Liรจvre
โข UNamur : Anne Roekens
โข ULB : Seth Van Hooland
34. DARIAH in Belgium
DARIAH-VL
โข Ghent University: Christophe Verbruggen
(spokesperson)
โข Antwerp University: Dirk Van Hulle
โข KU Leuven: Mark Depauw
โข Coming soon: UHasselt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
35. Infrastructural needs
โข Enhancing the potential of digitised data
โข eHumanities and the humanities digital ecosystem
โข Integrating data providers in humanities digital Ecosystem
โข Creation of knowledge bases
๏จ๏ Solution: setting up a Virtual Research Environment Service
Infrastructure. ... in DARIAH-EU!
37. VRE-SI โPilot projectsโ
Ghent University
โข Sources from the Medieval Low Countries (SMLC,)
โข TIC Collaborative
โข Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams
โข Newspapers crowdsourcing and text mining platform
Antwerp University
โข The Beckett Digital Manuscript Project
โข Dutch translations of ancient Greek tragedy and comedy
KULeuven
โข Trismegistos
โข NaBuCCo
VIAA (Flemish Institute for Archiving): VRE World War I